Chord Electronics Qutest
The Chord Electronics Qutest is a standalone desktop DAC without a built-in headphone amplifier, built on Chord's custom-coded Xilinx Artix 7 FPGA with a 49,152-tap length and 10-element pulse array design. It offers galvanically isolated USB-B, dual BNC coaxial (including a dual-data mode) and optical inputs, RCA outputs, user-selectable filters, and switchable 1/2/3V RMS output, supporting PCM up to 768kHz and native DSD512.
| Frequency response | 20 Hz – 20 kHz |
| THD | 0.0001% |
| Dimensions (W × H × D) | 160 × 45 × 88 mm |
| Weight | 770 g |
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